The
Department of Industrial Design (ID) is one of the nine departments of TU/e and has an internationally leading position because of its core commitment to
research through design (RtD) and its strikingly original
conceptual work. ID's ambition is to be recognized as one of the top departments in the world that conduct exciting research in the intersection of Design, Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Social Sciences and Humanities. In particular, the department aims to inspire and educate a new generation of design engineers who can contribute with their novel designs, their fluency in AI/ML algorithms and data, and their academic critical questioning, to the imminent and complex societal challenges our world is facing nowadays.
The
ID education program is competence-centered, self-directed and challenged-based. ID focuses on educating students to design through five different perspectives (called Expertise Areas), through core courses and electives:
- Math, data and computing.
- User and society.
- Technology and realization.
- Business and entrepreneurship.
- Creativity and aesthetics.
Students also learn to make connections between the different perspectives within project groups called squads. In addition, the ID education curriculum encourages and empowers students to take the ownership of their personal and professional development. Supported by their academic coaches, through ID curriculum and their personal, industrial and research projects, students develop a unique competence of designing and related design approaches individually. Next to self-directed learning and competence development, the educational model of ID is challenge-based. ID students work together on challenging and authentic projects in which multiple perspectives or disciplines are incorporated to solve the challenge (for example by working within interdisciplinary groups) using an entrepreneurial mindset.
At the Industrial Design department we have two research groups:
Systemic Change and
Future Everyday.
Job descriptionAs an Assistant / Associate Professor you will contribute to the department through both research and education.
Research: Building on existing approaches to engage with large groups of individuals and communities, you will generate knowledge by creating systems and evaluating interventions in a societal context, to understand how best to engage with individuals as building blocks for systemic change and societal transformation. Your research will expand extant expertise in social media, meta-design, transformative design in the domain of citizen science, platform design, groupware. It will bridge between the design and the use of applications for individual users, to address community-level and societal-level challenges. Understanding how to create viable communities, how to design moderation strategies, and understanding how costs and benefits to connect individual levels and group levels need to be addressed.
Education: You shall contribute to our educational expertise in Technology & Realization, Math, Data & Computing, and User & Society through courses at bachelor's and master's level in topics related to social computing and creative programming. Your remaining educational activities involve defining and supervising student design projects in areas related to the above topics, and addressing some of the application domains most relevant to the department, e.g., sustainability, inclusive society, smart mobility, healthcare, etc.